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Cerberus
Aug 6, 2013 00:24
@JosephWeissman An ana- or cataphora. A variable.
Cerberus
Aug 2, 2013 02:24
A border is just a cog in a machine of human interactions. If people treat it as a border, it is a border. When will they treat it as such? When they are inclined to do what others command or advise them to do. And when does all this happen in such a way as to result in what we consider a normal border? Ah, says, Tolstoy, that is more or less like asking why a ripple occurs at a certain spot in a pond: a result of complex factors, where no single main cause can be identified.
Cerberus
Aug 2, 2013 01:25
I feel like a snowball!
Mozibur Ullah
Aug 1, 2013 16:55
fail again, fail better
Joseph Weissman
Jul 27, 2013 03:58
> Even when they are well-controlled by an empire that owns them (as in the Chinese and Roman empires), there is a major movement of clandestine exploitation, and of miners' alliances either with nomad and barbarian incursions or peasant revolts.
commando
Jul 8, 2013 14:24
In case someone hasn't noticed yet: there's a self-evaluation going on right now in our review section. Get it before it's gone!
Cerberus
Jun 25, 2013 23:40
Anything is a philosophical issue!
commando
Jun 25, 2013 17:18
blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/06/the-war-of-the-closes/?cb=1
Gugg
Jun 19, 2013 18:50
user image
commando
Jun 19, 2013 18:41
philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions?&sort=unanswered
user61389
Jun 15, 2013 14:13
@Cerberus Oh no! You broke the pattern!
Gugg
Jun 14, 2013 20:07
I think they are doing this on purpose.
Gugg
Jun 14, 2013 19:25
But it's kind of... all over the place. How does he do it?
Cerberus
Jun 13, 2013 19:34
We're not as unique as we think. Except by our own standards.
Joseph Weissman
Jun 13, 2013 19:08
nature does it herself, of course; species have a halflife... :)
Cerberus
Jun 12, 2013 15:53
Chaire, phile!
commando
Jun 3, 2013 17:42
They say if a mathematician doesn't do their great work by age eleven, they never will.
Cerberus
Jun 1, 2013 16:33
A small bottle?
commando
May 28, 2013 23:49
they've always been there in my imagination
commando
May 28, 2013 04:23
I still think we need something out of Bucket's source code
Dennis
May 25, 2013 16:18
Ah, so the name change has occurred
Cerberus
May 24, 2013 17:53
It's not polite to call it a "plot hole". We prefer to call it the "entrance to eternal rest*".
Joseph Weissman
May 24, 2013 14:54
plug.dj/philosophy-1
commando
May 23, 2013 02:24
only if we had the misfortune to have arrived... :|
Gugg
May 19, 2013 15:34
Free will theorem
The free will theorem of John H. Conway and Simon B. Kochen states that, if we have a certain amount of "free will", then, subject to certain assumptions, so must some elementary particles. Conway and Kochen's paper was published in Foundations of Physics in 2006. Axioms The proof of the theorem relies on three axioms, which Conway and Kochen call "fin", "spin", and "twin". The spin and twin axioms can be verified experimentally. # Fin: There is a maximum speed for propagation of information (not necessarily the speed of light). This assumption rests upon causality. # Spin: The squared spi...
Gugg
May 16, 2013 20:15
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commando
May 16, 2013 17:32
"If I am any wiser than other men it is because where they do not know but think they know, I know that I do not know."
stoicfury
Apr 20, 2013 17:03
At any rate, I'll be in San Diego til Tuesday, hold down the fort :P
Shog9
Jan 26, 2013 03:38
Whooooo!
stoicfury
Jan 1, 2013 08:00
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Joseph Weissman
Dec 5, 2012 16:00
@Saeed Finally, I might note that the various stacks have different policies and guidelines. What may be appropriate on one may not be on another.
stoicfury
Nov 29, 2012 06:35
you're the hero NY deserves commando
QuietThud
Nov 21, 2012 05:17
YAAY! CATS! <- In real life, I sound like this.
stoicfury
Nov 21, 2012 02:06
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Joseph Weissman
Jun 23, 2012 22:44
@Tames the whole thing is online here: archives.chbooks.com/online_books/eunoia
Joseph Weissman
Jun 23, 2012 22:21
@Tames the reunification of art and science is named by Nietzsche the "joyous science" -- he seems to say that both science and art are insufficiently mature/robust at the moment to permit the merging, however
commando
May 19, 2012 04:09
we've already gotten 35 clicks on our community ad on gaming.SE
stoicfury
May 17, 2012 14:23
@JosephWeissman The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. -Winston Churchill
stoicfury
Apr 5, 2012 19:19
it appears my question about music downloading is #1
commando
Apr 3, 2012 23:55
well, maybe instead of having a challenge where people ask questions about specific subjects, we could have events (perhaps not challenges) where the community tries to deconstruct a really big question (posted on meta) into great smaller questions, both to enrich the material on the site (at the same time avoiding people asking the same big question) and to stimulate activity.
fabianhjr
Mar 24, 2012 23:16
There is a politician called Enrique Peña Nieto.
fabianhjr
Mar 24, 2012 23:16
I hold the believe that Homer Simpson is smarter than this guy.
commando
Mar 23, 2012 02:37
I don't have any suggestions for implementation, but what we need is a consistent asking-more-questions boost among the expert users
commando
Mar 19, 2012 21:31
Given that this model of spacetime seems to be the most accurate that we have, it would appear that if space emerged with the creation of the universe, so did time. If time existed before, then space must have too (this seems like a bit of a contradiction).
Thomas Shields
Mar 16, 2012 02:35
chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/538/conversation/… and a good night :)
user22144
Jan 24, 2012 02:43
I have to say, this is an excellent site. Kudos to whoever suggested it.
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Q: Which Philosophers are most often cited as Materialists?

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Q: Where does 'continental' philosophy fit in the subcategories of modern philosophy?

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